Our own people are the worst at bleeding us dry I found The Year of the Runaways, by Sunjeev Sahota, a depressing read as it confirmed so many ...

Today was our second visit to Victoria Park in Newbury and most enjoyable it was too. Memories from our previous visit were of slippery mud ...

“Nothing stays the same. But these are worries for another day. This is now, this is Dubai, and nothing else matters.” Diving For Pearls, by ...

The UK heatwave has continued throughout July – not perhaps as hot as we suffered earlier in the season but still warm for our normally temperate ...

This review was written for and first published by Bookmunch. My Third Life is a story about grief, debilitating grief. Narrated by a middle aged ...

“Some fought with other girls; some are still fighting here. One had done the thing to a boy because he asked her to: this story holds much interest for ...

Victoria Park Parkrun started just a couple of months ago and offered us the opportunity to collect a V for our alphabet challenge – Newbury is less ...

It was a bit of a concern when we set off for our weekend in Bridgwater to learn that Storm Claudia was planning on joining us. Last time we booked a ...

“I’m not sure, memory is a tricky thing it might be the product of too much time and loneliness. We have to make up stories, to believe them, to live ...

“Each of us is born with a pair of scissors, a needle, and thread. What do we do with them? We cut and mend and stitch. Do we know what we’re doing? Of ...